Report: Oman-built electric car will (supposedly) have a 2,250-mile range

Sometimes you come across numbers that simply must be fantasy. That was our first (and only) thought when we read about a new electric car that is supposedly coming with help from the government of Oman. Here's what we mean:

Range: 2,250 miles

Time between required maintenance: 21 years

0-60 time: four seconds

800 horsepower engine

Price tag: between $70,000 and $91,000

This is what Sultan bin Hamad al-Amri, chief executive office of Noor Majan, said he has been working on recently, according to UPI, a respected news outlet. The car has been undergoing a feasibility study for the past year and al-Amri claims to have gotten, "preliminary approvals from the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs." The car will also supposedly have a solar-powered air conditioner and massage chairs. Here's a question: is mid-June some sort of April Fool's Day thing in Oman?

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Anonymous

5 Years Ago

What they failed to mention in the press release was that the car moves only in a lightning storm, and it's got a automatic reel with 1,200 foot copper wire and a helium balloon as standard equipment. (joke)

Anonymous

5 Years Ago

Middle Way, you sound and wreak of rice(r). Do you really have to create an avatar to tell the world you're a ricer? Should we bow in awe of a 20-year old engine which is the envy of 13-year old pimple poppin' thugs everywhere? Hahaha

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Anonymous

5 Years Ago

That's easy, guys. You just build the entire car out of batteries. The super-efficient 800 HP motor shouldn't have too much trouble pushing a giant battery on wheels to 60 in 4 seconds. Just put a saddle on the top or something and ride it like Slim Pickens on a bomb ;)

Also, the electric Mini with 4 in-wheel motors makes 640 HP (160 HP at each wheel). It's not too far fetched to think they could increase the HP by 40 on each wheel, yielding 800 HP. I'm not sure, though, how they are counting the horses.

Anonymous

5 Years Ago

I think you might be right, and the 800 HP is coming from 4 200 HP motors. Or it could be that with the amount of power from the battery, they really do think they can get 800 HP out of a single motor. Again, depending on the timeframe, that might not be that crazy. We already have a 500+ horsepower electric motor in a motorcycle:

Take the SSC motor, a Prius Solar Roof, and some sort of "next generation" battery that is somewhere between a 7X to 10X improvement over the current Tesla battery pack, and you've got a car with these specs. All of the parts needed have either already been built, or have been announced right here on ABG as being under development.

Anonymous

5 Years Ago

I think one trap that people with gas engine backgrounds get stuck in is thinking that electric motors won't scale. That simply isn't the case. Here is a 49,000 horsepower electric motor, it just happens to be pretty big:

The Tesla electric motor is 70lbs and only the size of a watermellon and they get nearly 300 horsepower out of it. With 3 watermellons (210lbs), there is no reason why you couldn't get 800+ horsepower. You can fit three watermellons in just about any mid-sized car's trunk and have space to spare.

Anonymous

5 Years Ago

This would be the natural progression of taking a Tesla and putting in any one of the many "next-generation" battery packs that claim a 10X increase in energy density, and slapping on a "Solar Roof" off of a 2010 Prius.

Not really that completely incredible, depending upon what timeframe they are planning this to be ready for market. If they are targeting 2012, not realistic. If they are targeting 2020, then not really that shocking to me.